Martin Van Creveld Quotes

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see, there is simply no escape.

Martin Van Creveld

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My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Jimi Hendrix

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I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south of the border acquired great tracts of this vast wetland in the far north in order to plant non-native conifer plantations that attract hefty tax breaks.

John Burnside

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I love Comic Con.

Megan Fox

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Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

Amy Grant

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What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

Mickey Hart

MusicGreatBestSoulPeopleMean

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

Miguel Ferrer

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The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

Michael Tilson Thomas

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I know I'm always ready when I jump into the ring.

Joseph Parker

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Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

Dionne Warwick

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Kevin Dunn is great at what he does.

Diamond Dallas Page

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We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.

Deborah Tannen

ChangeTruthPeopleTruth IsThink

I've made many, many, many large wigs in my career, and I've experimented with lots of materials to make them more fun and interesting and as big as possible. I like to use the lightest wig materials that I can.

Chris March

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